Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, Docup(A)-Koniu(J)

[koniu]

ORIGINAL: PaxMondo

Wow, some wild rolls you got.  81 Vals managed only 8 hits.  Oh well, you got'em.

I know, very low. Usually i see 20-30% hits.
I think weather was major factor there. In both days KB was not able to strike in AM phase. Because of Thunderstorms i think, in both days i have heavy rain over KB in PM phase.

Also i have notice that Anything expect clear air or partial cloud over target is reducing DB accuracy much more that TB accuracy. And i was attacking during rain or overcast. Also in first day heavy CAP did not help
Note that i only score 18 bomb but 25 TT hits in two days

I think game should be named "Weather in the Pacific".


After next turn i will do some kind of battle summary.
Tomorrow KB will sail north i am pulling back all my surface assets. I have enugh full in KB to reach Rabaul maybe Truk(not sure). AO TF is 2 days from Rabaul.

LBA bombers are in mess. It will take time to replace planes as i can reinforce only 12 planes/week after last patch witch fix reinforcements counting bug. No more 30 replacement in one day for single unit.

KB is in good shape. 130 planes need to be replaced but it is spreed between all units o in few days KB can fight again. From 160 pilots lost in battle only 60 was from KB rest from LBA units and from what i see most of KIAs where low XP pilots. In most cases veterans survive

Wish me luck tomorrow. Everything in hands of subs and dice roles.
Maybe we will sunk one or two from those wounded ships.

[koniu]

26 FEB 43

Quiet. No major air or naval actions.

RO sub sunk CA Chester but i think ship was crippled as he not move at all during night phase. I think all US CV manage to move to Cooktown. I see huge number of ships in port and TFs. I still have chance to sunk few ships so i patrolling holes in reefs. I think enemy damaged BBs are still on sea. SO tomorrow will be last chance to sunk something before they hid in port.

Some subs start to take positions south of Cooktown on deep and shallow watter. Maybe we hit something when they will move south.

Some cargo ships are unloading in MB and Tagula. I am sending destroyers.

KB 1 hex from Rabaul. two days before KB will refuel.

[koniu]

So MB and Tagula are in Allied hands.

What next?
Tagula is lvl 2 AF. So far i am able to keep it closed but how long.
Australian ID is on island so taking island can be difficult.

MB is Dot base with 200 enemy AV. I can try starve them as they need to be supplied from sea.

I thinking about keeping those two base suppressed but not counter invade. That way i will not risk dangerous invasion so close to enemy and many good allied LCU will be siting defending those small bases.

Last battle buy me time to better prepare in DEI and other places and probably i will not see major naval landings for some time.

Allies have now two fleet CV only so i can assume Pacific will be quiet util he rapair carrier, and replace fighters with F6Fs, and Docup will focus on areas where he can have LBA support (Salomon's and Burma).

[koniu]

It look like all damaged enemy ships manage to hide in Cooktown.[:@]
Bad news, but i think i will not see them for some time. BBs and CVs need to sail toward PH or WC for repairs and spend there weeks if not months is dry dock.
When next time we will have CV battle Japan will have three more new carriers. Taiho will be avaible in 4 days and in 45 days two Unryūs will arrive also.

I sunk small cargo TF near Maoeolap. Nothing big. Another attempt to transport supplies to Marshals.

In North China 1 ID, 1 Regiment and 2 tank battalions are moving to shock trough river against 4 or 5 Chines ID. I am bombing them from days now with good result but i am worry that 800AV against bigger Chines force i to small to try crossing river. And it will be sad to lose that ID as it is one of most XP units in Japanese army. Should i wait and bring bigger forces or fight.

Burma. Enemy Army (45k man, 500 guns, 800 vehicles move out from jungle and is moving toward Mandalay. Japanese Ground troop are ready to fight(75k man, 600 guns, 1600 vehicles). I have 200 Bombers waiting to better weather to attack. I am thinking what attitude will be best. Of course 2k will give biggest accuracy but flak loses are going to be huge. Especially after last patch. I think i will try 11-14k

[Crackaces]

Burma. Enemy Army (45k man, 500 guns, 800 vehicles move out from jungle and is moving toward Mandalay. Japanese Ground troop are ready to fight(75k man, 600 guns, 1600 vehicles). I have 200 Bombers waiting to better weather to attack. I am thinking what attitude will be best. Of course 2k will give biggest accuracy but flak loses are going to be huge. Especially after last patch. I think i will try 11-14k

I know getting great combat results and squad kills is a priority but know that an air attack of any sort will move the unit in question from move mode into combat mode 1/2 the movement value. Thus despiste the bad weather it might be good to slow these units down as I am a big beleiver that Burma leads to victory for the Allies .N=2 .[;)]

[koniu]

ORIGINAL: Crackaces

Burma. Enemy Army (45k man, 500 guns, 800 vehicles move out from jungle and is moving toward Mandalay. Japanese Ground troop are ready to fight(75k man, 600 guns, 1600 vehicles). I have 200 Bombers waiting to better weather to attack. I am thinking what attitude will be best. Of course 2k will give biggest accuracy but flak loses are going to be huge. Especially after last patch. I think i will try 11-14k

I know getting great combat results and squad kills is a priority but know that an air attack of any sort will move the unit in question from move mode into combat mode 1/2 the movement value. Thus despiste the bad weather it might be good to slow these units down as I am a big beleiver that Burma leads to victory for the Allies .N=2 .[;)]

I am gathering my air force. Tomorrow i will not attack but next day 200 Ki-49 will strike.

[koniu]

1 March 43

R&D
B6N1 enter production i will build 90 for now and from May when B6N2 arrive 120
H8K2 is now main patrol plane in production
N1K1 George advance, i will produce it from 4/43
N1K2 George is advancing 8 points in day I hope to have it 7/43
Ki-84a Frank is repairing fast. I hope to have first repaired factory in month or two
Ki-84b Frank only few factories repaired.


Burma
Enemy is advancing toward Mandalay(it is not 45 it is 75K of troops). Base will be ready do fight in three days when last ground troops arrive. I am moving ID to Magwe to secure left flank. Depending of battle result i will stay in Mandalay or retreat to jungle

Some troops trying to bay pas my positions south of Akyab. I will reckon what forces they are. If needed i will retreat one hex south to x3 terrain

Air force almost ready in two days I will strike those enemy troops in open ground.


Salomon`s
Two DDs i have send to MB sunk xAK and AVD, later bombers from Rabaul sunk two Clemson class APDs.

KB have refueled and is sailing to Truk. I will stay there day or two to rearm ships and eplace pilots and planes and then i will find new home for KB. Truk is under constant reckon - DL is 9/10

Pacific
I have landed on Makin. I want to use that island as float plane base and to be sure that base in not secretly used by allies.
Docup is doing something on Baker Island i will send small sag to investigate but nothing bigger that CL. Probably he is using that base for float planes operations

[GreyJoy]

ORIGINAL: koniu

1 March 43

R&D
B6N1 enter production i will build 90 for now and from May when B6N2 arrive 120
H8K2 is now main patrol plane in production
N1K1 George advance, i will produce it from 4/43
N1K2 George is advancing 8 points in day I hope to have it 7/43
Ki-84a Frank is repairing fast. I hope to have first repaired factory in month or two
Ki-84b Frank only few factories repaired.

Wow! George 2 in July 1943? That will be a huge bonus for your IJNAF!!!

Will you keep researching the B6N2a once the B6N2 arrives? It only gets the HA-6 Radar but this eqipment won't be available untill 11/44...so i don't think it's worth spending resources and engines to research it

[koniu]

ORIGINAL: GreyJoy

ORIGINAL: koniu

1 March 43

R&D
B6N1 enter production i will build 90 for now and from May when B6N2 arrive 120
H8K2 is now main patrol plane in production
N1K1 George advance, i will produce it from 4/43
N1K2 George is advancing 8 points in day I hope to have it 7/43
Ki-84a Frank is repairing fast. I hope to have first repaired factory in month or two
Ki-84b Frank only few factories repaired.

Wow! George 2 in July 1943? That will be a huge bonus for your IJNAF!!!

Will you keep researching the B6N2a once the B6N2 arrives? It only gets the HA-6 Radar but this eqipment won't be available untill 11/44...so i don't think it's worth spending resources and engines to research it

I will not research B6N2a. I do the same thing with Ki-49IIa, after "a"was avaible i move factories to something else and i skip "b" version
When B6N2 will be avaible i will move one or maybe two factories to production and rest will switch to R&D `45 planes.

As for George it is optimistic date. More probably it will be 8/43[:D] But You need to know that this is only passable because of engine bonus.
That why i am building engine poll from months like mad man. I have now 1000 in pool.
Frank is also using that engine and few more planes so i will need many of them.
N1K5 will be also accelerated but no so much as K2 as his SR is 3 and i will need it in second half of `44 to defend HI against B-29.
When K5 arrive i will keep production of K2 because of his SR 2 and ability to operate from small/medium AF

[obvert]

ORIGINAL: GreyJoy

ORIGINAL: koniu

1 March 43

R&D
B6N1 enter production i will build 90 for now and from May when B6N2 arrive 120
H8K2 is now main patrol plane in production
N1K1 George advance, i will produce it from 4/43
N1K2 George is advancing 8 points in day I hope to have it 7/43
Ki-84a Frank is repairing fast. I hope to have first repaired factory in month or two
Ki-84b Frank only few factories repaired.

Wow! George 2 in July 1943? That will be a huge bonus for your IJNAF!!!

Will you keep researching the B6N2a once the B6N2 arrives? It only gets the HA-6 Radar but this eqipment won't be available untill 11/44...so i don't think it's worth spending resources and engines to research it

I'm staying on the Jill line to push it up a few months. That way I'll have a pool and planes in action when the radar arrives, ready to go immediately.

[koniu]

ORIGINAL: obvert

ORIGINAL: GreyJoy

ORIGINAL: koniu

1 March 43

R&D
B6N1 enter production i will build 90 for now and from May when B6N2 arrive 120
H8K2 is now main patrol plane in production
N1K1 George advance, i will produce it from 4/43
N1K2 George is advancing 8 points in day I hope to have it 7/43
Ki-84a Frank is repairing fast. I hope to have first repaired factory in month or two
Ki-84b Frank only few factories repaired.

Wow! George 2 in July 1943? That will be a huge bonus for your IJNAF!!!

Will you keep researching the B6N2a once the B6N2 arrives? It only gets the HA-6 Radar but this eqipment won't be available untill 11/44...so i don't think it's worth spending resources and engines to research it

I'm staying on the Jill line to push it up a few months. That way I'll have a pool and planes in action when the radar arrives, ready to go immediately.

What exactly Jill radar is doing. This is ASW radar or search radar or maybe it help with attack accuracy?

[PaxMondo]

NavSearch.  I don't know that it impacts bombing accuracy.

[obvert]

As far as I know without having used it, I would imagine it helps with all search activities. So subs (on the surface) and surface ships.

[koniu]

ORIGINAL: PaxMondo

NavSearch. I don't know that it impacts bombing accuracy.

ORIGINAL: obvert

As far as I know without having used it, I would imagine it helps with all search activities. So subs (on the surface) and surface ships.

It is very good. Better naval search means better DL. And better DL means more planes flying to attack them and targets are chosen better so more planes is attacking CV, CA, BB and not DD or cargo ships

[koniu]

1 March 43 (last turn was 28 FEB)

No air actions today
We have ground battle i china. Japanese troops shock trough river again stronger enemy. Loses are acceptable. Troops need to rest for few days as disruption is high but they are capable to continue offensive.

Ground combat at 89,31 (near Paotow)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 19751 troops, 140 guns, 206 vehicles, Assault Value = 787

Defending force 23215 troops, 162 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 861

Japanese adjusted assault: 522

Allied adjusted defense: 263

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+), disruption(-)

Japanese ground losses:
1476 casualties reported
Squads: 8 destroyed, 192 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 28 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 15 disabled
Vehicles lost 25 (1 destroyed, 24 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
2277 casualties reported
Squads: 8 destroyed, 186 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 24 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled
Guns lost 10 (1 destroyed, 9 disabled)

Assaulting units:
6th Division
9th Tank Regiment
3rd Tank Regiment
2nd Ind.Mixed Brigade
13th Army

Defending units:
42nd Chinese Corps
95th Chinese Corps
17th Chinese Corps
22nd Chinese Corps
83rd Chinese Corps
4th Chinese Cavalry Corps



Pilot training
Bill for of map training is bigger every month. Right now it is 25000 HI[:@]

Pilots of map reserve

[GreyJoy]

To be honest i dont think the radar version of the jill makes much of a difference.
For me not worth devoting R&D factories for that version.

[GreyJoy]

Koniu: u need to dry your training off map pools. 25000 monthly is not acceptable: spend some 4 hours and move all those crappy pilots to map, then to reserve group and then simplydelate them

[koniu]

ORIGINAL: GreyJoy

Koniu: u need to dry your training off map pools. 25000 monthly is not acceptable: spend some 4 hours and move all those crappy pilots to map, then to reserve group and then simplydelate them

Are You telling about

Replacements ----> air unit ------> reserve


Arent that give me 5000 pilots with very low start xp in reserve. Arent they worth of training some time of map to build some XP. Those ones in 1-3 mount training have xp 4 or less

[Crackaces]

ORIGINAL: GreyJoy

To be honest i dont think the radar version of the jill makes much of a difference.
For me not worth devoting R&D factories for that version.

I am an AFB and the Allied night fighters with radar do not have a remarkable difference in interception / kill rates in my opinion, but they do observe an affect on accuracy of night attacks. Since they are a part of the OOB I deploy night fighters to interdict as the game allows for night attacks. But I agree with you that if I had to trade production for some other aircraft like the IJ have to .. it would not be worth it ..

[GreyJoy]

I don't care much about starting xp. Once moved to the general reserve, u can completely delate them....it is a long and boring process but u save tons of HI points!